THE WAY OF THE STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 9

THE WAY OF THE STRIKE.

Many interesting' letters reach tho .Mayor of Auckland, Ono, iviich caiTio r •on Satur<lay from a frcnch polisher, makes, interesting reading, as mdicatiye of how the Furniture Workers' Union decided to, participate in the general strike. The' writer gives the Mayor 'his name and address as a bona Me, 'and his letter, as published in'the 'Star," reads as follows"Allow me to congratulate you and your colleagues on the splendid move you have made in coping with the present industrial trouble. I can safely say, as a workman, that the treatment every man recoived, if ho was not in favour of the strike, was of a most disgraceful nature.' In the factory in which I work there are 12 handß employed, and only ono was in favour of the strike. This one man was a recent arrival from England. All tho others aro colonials. It appears to mo that these men from other parts of the world are always the first to try and make trouble. Thoy always exaggerate what wonders they havo done in other countries, and what marvels they aro, but when one comes to work with them, ono finds that thoy mostly what is called a 'botch* at then- tradesin every shajk> and form.